#NowReading Russia and the Western Far Right: Anton Shekhovtsov
Gives you an idea of why #Putin could be (is already?) a darling of the Western Far-right. And how he's played with the greed of Western capitalists.
In his speech at Valdai in 2013, Putin rejected three ideologies: Soviet communism, Western liberalism, and Russian nationalism. While he also expressed criticism towards ‘fundamental conservatism’ that idealised ‘pre-1917 Russia’.
he explained that ‘the rise of xenophobia among the native indigenous population’ was a result of ‘people being shocked by the aggressive pressure on their traditions [and a] familiar way of life, and [of people] being seriously scared of losing a nation-state identity’.
